The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-06-01
FARM NOTES,

as RUE, III Is the ldJ6 variety Ot pOta- /
toes that suffer most from the Colorado |
beetle.
Even in warm weather hot mess will be
relished by the pigs, and will promote their
health.
AS rule nearly all cases of collie in
horses are caused by mismanagement in
feeding and watering.
II you wish to raise good many fowls
you must keep them in separate small
hocks. Large numbers do not flourish
well together.
The potato partakes of the soil in which
it is grown. Heavy land is apt to produce
watery potatoes, especially in wet season.
Young ducks will have cramps if allowed
to drink very cold water. Keep them
away from ponds until they shall be well
feathered.
The common red clover is better than
the large for general purposes. The latter
is difficult to cure, makes coarser hay and
is more apt to become musty.
The best way to set hen is to do it at
night. III she is to be removed to some
other location carry her on the nest, as she
will be better reconciled to the change.
The sudden change to very warm weather
is severe on the horses that have just begun
on spring work Too much H6erality can
not be bestowed on the horses on warm
days.
When contagious disease breaks out in
flock of fowls it is better to destroy them
all rather than have the disease get
"rooted" on the farm, as the germs may
remain for years.
An Illinois dairyman relates this expert
ence: From the 9Th to the 10th of this
month my milk shrunk from 855 pounds
to 750 pounds. 1 asked my foreman about
he ooI ri he Of kho
He said he was doing all he knew how to
keep up the yield of milk. / at last dis
covered the cause In the change of hay. 1
had been feeding the second crop of clover
and the last of it was fed on the 4th of the
month. The change was to the last cut of
first crop, though IL was good hay. | have
repeatedly had the same experience when
/ had changed from early cut to late cut
hay.
1t is claimed that more damage Is done
by the gentle bulls than by those that are
vicious, and the advice is to watch them,
as the gentlest of bulls is a treacherous
animal.
The Live Stock Journal says that it would
be as reasonable to expect good bread from
-four made Of damaged grain as pure milk
from COWS with rations OF food tainted by
age or soured through exposure TO heat
and moisture. The putridity contained in
decsying food enters aud pOisons the blood,
and it is from the blood that the milk is
extracted in the udder. Let no man flatter
himself that the digestive organs can sep
arate the putriditY, casting 1t aside; on the
other hand, the damaged material goes
wherever the blood goes-to the Lungs,
| liver, kidneys and Udder, and in the latter
enters the milk.
The gooseberry bushes do best when they
| are well trimmed. They make very ran K
| growth. 1t is the fruit that does best in
partial shade, and if the mildeg does not
attack it crop may always be looked for.
| They are not grown extensively for sale,
| but every farm or garden should Gave a
space devoted to them.
If you have old trees that have failed to
yield profitable crops Of fruit, dig the soil
up thoroughly and then apply good
dressing of well rotted stable manure and
work thoroughly into the soil. Then, if
you have them, apply a dressing of wood
/ ashes If these fail to revive the tree, after
| giving good pruning. it is about past re-
demptiou, and should give way to some
thing better.
Peter Henderson, believing that the cab
bage fly 1.-THE parent OF the cabbage maggot
is attracted to the cabbage roots by the
scent of the manure, is going to try cotton
meal, which is odorless, as fertilizer, and
thinks he may be able to outwit the fly
and thus secure exemption from the ravages
of its progeny, the maggot.
A wise farmer will protect the birds, the
insect eaters, robins, cat birds, blue birds
black birds, thrushes, orioles, red birds
wOodpeckers and the like. All the birds
mentioned have a mission TO perform il
the economy of nature. The martins de
s'roy weevils, the quails chinch bugs, the
woodpeckers dig worms from the trees
while Others eat worms, catapillars and
bugs.
OF all the dairy products, butlermilk is
perhaps, the least appreciated. IL is more
easily digested than sweet milk, as it ha
undergone fermentation which is par
tial Digestion and enters the stomach in
loose, haky state, easily acted upon by TIT
gastric juices. In some respects it resem
bles koumiss, the most digestible OF mill
products. 1t is decided laxative; counter
acts constipation.
An old bee-keeper says that in localitie
where willo VS. and hazel do not abound i
is well to feed bees with rye meal, as it Il
good substitute for pollen, which is th,
main Ingredient in the bee-bread, on which
young bees are fed. Rye meal when fed
especially in late springs, stimulates brood
rearing, and enables them to send out ear
lier and stronger swerms. 1t should b
placed in shallow troughs or pans q rod o.
more from the hives where it will soon bt
found by the bees and gathered eagerly by
them.
If swine are to be kept on the farm, tn,
best profits will be found in the fines
breeds that run into matured meat the frs
year.
Has your grindstone become FOLLOWED
from the grinding of small tools? GrinC
up the spades and shovels by holding then
square across the stone at a proper level
Spades, like hoes, should be ground all OF
one side.
Keep on gathering and planting nuts. 7
is the coming industry. The alleged diff
Guilty of transplanting nut trees is nothing
more or less than a false alarm sounded b.
the careless operator.-Orchard and Gar
| den.
Every improvement in the garden, say
the Orange County Farmer, reduces the de
mand for the doctors services. Let fruit
do away with the demand for drugs of a.
kinds and excellent vegetables in part re
| place the excessive use of animal food.
1t is a singular fact, and contrary to pop
ular superstition, that fresh, plump pO
tato, with dormant or illustrating buds
will develop a stouter stalk or stalks anC
"bfeak ground" much sooner than 8 tube